NELA ... I agree 100% with what you say about the outdoors. Been at it all my life, and would go insane if I had to live in a "concrete jungle". Here's a short quote from a 1964 book by Robert Traver (Anatomy of a Fisherman) which sums it up nicely:
I fish ...
... because I love the environs where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful, and hate the environs where crowds of people are found, which are invariably ugly.
... because of all the television commercials, cocktail parties, and assorted social posturing I thus escape.
... because in a world where most men seem to spend their lives doing something they hate, my fishing is at once an endless source of delight and an act of small rebellion
... because trout do not lie or cheat and cannot be bought or bribed or impressed by power, but respond only to quietude and humility and endless patience.
... because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last time, and I for one don't want to waste the trip.
... because mercifully there are no telephones on trout waters.
... because only in the woods can I find solitude without loneliness
Finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important, but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns on men are equally unimportant, and not nearly so much fun.